Rad I have noticed that the minimal_integrity for BBS requests is a little off.. say minimal is set at 80, it doesnt accept the request unless the bot is above 80. small issue in the grand scheme.
Sorry, missed your post.
Here is part of code for listing applicable request variants:
Code:
if "minimal_integrity" in request:
if bot.chassis.integrity<int(request["minimal_integrity"]):
continue
It should accept bot with 80 integrity if minimal_integrity is 80. Same as it works with minimal_integrity = 100, otherwise no bots would be accepted as you can't go over 100.
Maybe something else is there, like minor defect? Just in case, flavor defects, like freckles from some mods are still considered defect and if there is no defects_allowed=True then it will be blocked from being listed.
Clicking buttons is a little slow in this game. For example, there's a slight pause when you repeat an action--maybe a quarter of a second max. I'm not complaining; just wondering if that's typical of renpy when multiple sections of a page have to be updated.
Likely transitions, somewhat intended, you can make it faster or disable completely. Open Settings->System->Transition Speed/In-game transitions.
Also it is pretty much first option if game hangs/lag on android/web.
Just wanted to chime in again and give my thoughts of the game after the last patch.
First off, I want to say good job! I had fun playing and I appreciate the effort and time you are putting in to give us freeloaders a game to play. Now on to the actual thoughts!
- Enjoyable game play loop, however towards the end of my multiple plays I found myself just mashing the same buttons over and over. Perhaps add a scheduler or an option to repeat the day so you can just do all your actions in a single click and then have a summary of the result at the end?
- When looking for salvageable bots in the Dump Site it would be nice to have an auto-sell (at the flee market) option. Something where you can auto-sell by model and/or skill value. For me I just found the number of clicks to go from the Dump Site, sell the bots, and back to the Dump site to be the biggest time consumption for that day.
- I very much enjoyed the Shopkeeper option and look forward to more combined Roles in the future. One note, I found when I had 3-4 bots with this role it tended to sell out all my spare parts. It would be nice if there was an option to disable a bots ability to sell parts or at least lock/unlock all the parts at once. Another solution would be to add a little menu where you can toggle on and off the selling of each part.
- When you have 3-4 bots with the shopkeeper role (and N7 CPU) I found that I spent most of my time just maintaining psychocores. Sometimes the bot would lose 10-15% in a single day, so it feels like the hit the bot takes due to exp gain is a bit high. Another way to alleviate the issue would be add a role that you can give a bot which would maintain psychocores automatically. Though if you go down this path, it would also be nice if the repair professions also automatically repaired your active bots.
- Thanks for adding the storage area for bots. This made it easier to keep a queue of bots for repair and sell so if you were looking for parts you could free up space on the off chance you found a bot with a compatible part.
- There is no easy way to level up the players social skill, it would be nice if it leveled up like other skills when training your bots or at least there was a reliable way to get a decent amount of experience.
Again, thanks for creating and continuing development of this game, I look forward to your next release!
Thank you!
I surely can see how game can become too clicky, but i guess some clicking is expected for this kind of game. Don't think schedule will work here. My approach to handle this issue would be adding more passive ways to deal with most problems. Like adding capsule upgrades to stabilize psychocore or improving techie-related roles to slowly auto-repair bots at end of time period and so on.
For Dump Site i have some random events planned where local scum will try to shake you down for what you have found there. As of 0.3.1 game keeps things you found in internal list and later on it will use it to take your things if you decide to back away from hostiles. List is cleared/things considered "delivered to home" once you leave Dump Site.
So auto-sell option would kinda kill whole idea. With bulk sales and shopkeepers unwanted parts probably should be too annoying. Also talking about shopkeepers, they sell parts for bit more than you, so if you want more passive income it make sense to keep all the junk you have for shopkeepers to sell.
More roles are planned, from bodyguard to robo-maid
I will rework do-not-sell mechanics a bit, making it part-type, not part specific, so once you toggle do-not-sell for v4 CPU, shopkeepers will not touch any of these. Also it will allow to return parts stacking back, as having huge list is really annoying and i doubt there is much use for "don't sell this v4 CPU, but can sell these 3 of v4". Also likely will make global do-not-sell into proper screen with settings, based on rates, defects etc.
Right now low psychocore stability does pretty much nothing bad, as long as you unlocked good traits, that is. In future i will add passive ways to maintain stability, to avoid high maintenance issue. Probably as capsule upgrade or indeed as another bot role.
Player social skill is supposed to be slow to train. It is somewhat innate ability, you can train it, but you can't go from shut-in nerd to playboy overnight. I may change it in future, but generally i don't want it to improve too fast.
I saw that by selling at the market they want female sex-bots so later in the game you can have male sex-bots, shemale sex-bots and futanari sex-bots?
It would be nice to have an little editor for the protagonist.
With the mods that add sex-bots you could increase the number of sex-bots you can own by being able to decide who to bring with you and who to leave to work in the shop.
Add more jobs for sex bots eg bodyguards or shop guards, scavengers, hookers for the night.
It is possible to add male bots already with mods, just specific "gender": "male". Later on may add support for moddable genders too, with custom pronounces and some logic flags. As for vanilla version, i don't think i can do any good gay content and there is not plans for female mc in near future (though code can handle it, so eventually i may add it), so your best option would be mods if you interested.
MC more in-depth creation/editor is something planned, but no hard ETA for now, sorry.
Yes, companion flag is planned, likely will be single bot to go with you when leaving home, providing some bonuses and helping with events.
More roles are planned, see my signature if you want bigger/faster update
No, sorry, have limited time, so have to set priorities. As there are already many mods to choose from i focus on things modders can't do. Eventually i will add more bot models to vanilla version too.
